Example sentences for: slips

How can you use “slips” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Los Angeles Times leads with yesterday's earthquake in Turkey, a story the Washington Post fronts and the New York Times slips inside.

  • A boy from the university, track star goofing with his girl at river's edge, slips he falls in and she watches him carried away in silence, arms outstretched like wings, not a word or sound or sign of struggle:

  • Real '50s slips had no relation to it at all.

  • He now slips in and out of lucidity before his despairing, Italian-born wife, Rezia (Amelia Bullmore); like Clarissa, he is haunted by the lack of permanence in all things.

  • He denied having made the slips of the tongue that made him famous, and his contemporaries agreed that most legendary spoonerisms were invented by imaginative New College undergraduates.


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